Planning Marathon Training Exercises & Preparation Tips with a Calendar

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Angela on behalf of expertvillage.com and right now I am going to show you how to train for a marathon. A marathon takes months and months of training. It almost becomes a lifestyle. What you should get is a calendar, and mark daily what each exercise you are supposed to do since they do change every single day. Now, what I have written here is a weekly schedule that should be repeated and repeated and repeated for about three months. Then after this, it changes to a new schedule. For the first day just start out with an easy recovery run, 30 minutes, slow pace, slight jog. The next day, to build your muscle mass, you want to hike through hills and go through trails that involve inclination. The third day, you want to have your tempo run where you calculate how many minutes it takes you to do a mile and try to make that consistent for each mile that you run. The next is speed, where you would preferably do it in a track, where you can measure how much you are sprinting and you want to sprint as far and fast as you can and then follow that with a light jog and then repeat that. Friday, a day of rest, let all the muscles repair. Saturday, a moderate paced run similar to the easy recovery run. Seven, to build your endurance, to get your body used to running for that long period of time. You want to do a long slow distance run."